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Obama’s infanticide lies exposed

Posted 19 Aug 2008 in 2008 election, abortion, Barack Obama, healthcare, hypocrisy, lies

Note: Even if you’re pro-choice, you owe it to yourself to read up on Barack Obama’s extreme position on abortion as well as infanticide and his pathetic attempts to distort his voting record. I realize I’m not going to change anyone’s views on abortion, but you should at least know where the candidate stands on this issue, specifically the facts surrounding Obama’s cover-up which are linked toward the end of this post.
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There’s a story I saw in the news yesterday that has bearing on the upcoming election. Specifically because it concerns the debate over when life begins. In this case, the five-month-old fetus (a.k.a. baby) was prematurely delivered and mistakenly declared dead…until it was discovered that the baby was actually still alive.

The Jerusalem Post – A couple from Kafr Yasif in the Galilee received the shock of their lives Monday when the wife’s miscarried 610-gram fetus, which had been declared dead five hours earlier, was found to be breathing.

The baby girl, born during the 23rd week of gestation, still has an uncertain future. Hospital spokesman Ziv Farber said that any premature infant of that weight and age had only a 10 percent chance for survival. But five years ago, he added, “we had a baby weighing only 580 grams, and she survived.”

The 26-year-old mother and her husband have a five-year-old son at home. When she gave birth after going into premature labor at the hospital, the doctor on the scene pronounced it dead and it was taken to the morgue.

The father, Ali Majdub, told Channel 2 that his wife realized the child was alive after asking to see her dead daughter one last time.

“When we unwrapped the baby to see her, she realized it was moving. I began screaming and ran with it toward the doctors,” he said.

She was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, where doctors are fighting for her life.

“I was in shock,” the mother told Channel 2 last night. “I thought I wasn’t hearing it right when they said she was still alive.”

Dr. Moshe Daniel, the hospital’s deputy director, said that in his 35 years as a physician, he had “never heard of such a case. It was like a medical miracle.”

If Barack Obama had his way, babies that age who’ve survived an abortion attempt would be denied medical care so they would die, per their mother’s wishes.

Lest you think I’m exaggerating, please check back to my post last week about Obama’s radical position on abortion and his recent attempts to distance himself from his voting record.

It’s also worth reviewing Obama’s disingenuous attack this weekend against those who’ve pointed out his voting record.

…I hate to say that people are lying, but here’s a situation where folks are lying. I have said repeatedly that I would have been completely in, fully in support of the federal bill that everybody supported — which was to say — that you should provide assistance to any infant that was born – even if it was as a consequence of an induced abortion. That was not the bill that was presented at the state level. What that bill also was doing was trying to undermine Roe vs. Wade.

I guess that was not the bill he thought he knew.

Of course, his shameless attack came before he was confronted with the facts and forced to acknowledge his extremism…and his brazen lies.

Indeed, Mr. Obama appeared to misstate his position in the CBN interview on Saturday when he said the federal version he supported “was not the bill that was presented at the state level.”

His campaign yesterday acknowledged that he had voted against an identical bill in the state Senate, and a spokesman, Hari Sevugan, said the senator and other lawmakers had concerns that even as worded, the legislation could have undermined existing Illinois abortion law. Those concerns did not exist for the federal bill, because there is no federal abortion law.

In 2005, the campaign noted, a “Born Alive” bill passed the Illinois Legislature after another clause had been added that explicitly stated that the legislation would have no effect on existing state abortion laws.

For your edification, here is David Freddoso’s column laying out all the evidence concerning Obama’s deception and the facts regarding his untenable position on infanticide.

Sen. Obama is currently misleading people about what he voted against, specifically claiming that the bill he voted against in his committee lacked “neutrality” language on Roe v. Wade. The bill did contain this language. He even participated in the unanimous vote to put it in.

Obama’s work against the bill to protect premature babies represents one of two times in his political career, along with his speech against the Iraq war, that he really stuck out his neck for something that might hurt him politically. Unlike his Iraq speech, Obama is deeply embarrassed about this one — so embarrassed that he is offering a demonstrable falsehood in explanation for his actions. Fortunately, the documents showing the truth are now available.


Personal accounts from registered nurse Jill Stanek who worked at the Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL and witnessed numerous occurrences of the grotesque “induced labor abortion” (a.k.a. live birth abortion) procedure conducted on 2nd and 3rd trimester babies and the subsequent starvation and abandonment leading to their eventual deaths.
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UPDATE: Allahpundit sums up Barry’s squirming rather well:

To recap, Obama initially said he voted against the 2003 bill protecting born-alive aborted fetuses only because it would have threatened abortion rights due to its lack of a “neutrality” clause vis-a-vis Roe v. Wade. Minor problem: The bill did include that clause and State Sen. Obama was one of the committee members who made sure that it did – before he voted against it anyway. Meanwhile, the bill he voted against was identical to a bill that passed 98-0 in Congress which he claims he would have voted for if he had been a U.S. Senator at the time. How to reconcile the two positions? Simple: Since there are no federal abortion laws, the federal bill was essentially a symbolic gesture, whereas there are of course state abortion laws in Illinois that could have been affected by the state bill. Which is to say, he was prepared to take a stand on the issue if he knew that his stand would have … no practical consequences whatsoever.

Ace quips:

Obama really does seem to prefer the sort of “lawmaking” which is entirely conducted on the plane of airy generalities, nebulous themes, and empty gestures, doesn’t he? When asked to vote on a bona fide law (a law-type law, with actual legal effect, as opposed to the “thinky” sort of thought-experiment virtual “law” Obama prefers) he either courageously votes present or cries that it was unfair to ask him to vote on a law that actually might change the law.

And NRO’s Ramesh Ponnuru drives some factual nails through the Obama campaign’s feigned indignance:

Illinois law has rules — loophole-ridden rules, but rules — requiring treatment of babies who have “sustainable survivability.” If an attempted abortion of a pre-viable fetus results in a live birth, the law did not protect the infant. Nurse Jill Stanek said that at her hospital “abortions” were repeatedly performed by inducing the live birth of a pre-viable fetus and then leaving it to die. When she made her report, the attorney general said that no law had been broken. That’s why legislators proposed a bill to fill the gap.

Obama did not want the gap filled. He did not want pre-viable fetuses/infants to have any legal protection. In the Illinois legislature, he argued that providing them with legal protection would both be unconstitutional in itself — a violation of the Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence — and undermine the right to abortion.

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UPDATE: I don’t know if it’s sad, ironic, or both that Obama introduced a constitutional amendment in the Illinois state legislature that would have forced the state to adopt a universal health care system, citing dignity and human rights:

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity, and there is an obligation for the State of Illinois to ensure that every person is able to realize this fundamental right.

It would seem that Obama doesn’t view infants as live human beings worthy of health care, a belief shared by many pro-abortion advocates.

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